Histarchers, 

Please see the CFP below, placed at Paul Shackel's request.  
Apologies for cross posting. 

Dave Gadsby

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Subject: [Wac] Call for papers - Working Class Heritage


> CALL FOR ARTICLES
>
> Title: Cultural Heritage and the Working Class
>
> Class is not dead! Many people are actively using working class heritage 
> as a resource to reflect on the past, reassess the present, and plan for 
> the future. At the beginning of the 21st century there is a growing 
> tendency for the heritage of working class people to be interpreted and 
> presented to the public in museums and heritage sites. Working class 
> communities and organizations are also playing an active role in creating 
> a memory of their own past. In this proposed volume we aim to theorize and 
> document this phenomenon as an under-represented form of cultural 
> heritage.
>
> Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public 
> history of labour, and new working class studies, this volume will 
> highlight the heritage of working people, communities and organizations. 
> We particularly urge community and labour movement activists, and scholars 
> committed to civic engagement who are working closely with working class 
> communities or organizations, to submit abstracts.
>
> Studies for this volume can include interpretation of working class 
> communities, working life, industrial heritage or working class culture. 
> Museums and other forms of formal and informal presentation of the working 
> class, as well as places to remember and celebrate the labour movement, 
> are also important topics. Articles dealing with intangible forms of 
> labour heritage including music, art, skills, workplace experiences, oral 
> histories, celebrations and festivals are encouraged. We particularly 
> welcome contributions from those - be they academics, trade unionists or 
> working class community activists - who explicitly mount challenges to the 
> received wisdom of the representation of 'heritage' as belonging to the 
> elite, and who foreground working class experience and 
> self-representation. Articles that can place these themes in explicit 
> comparative and international perspective are also most welcome.
>
> Word length: 5000-6000 inclusive of bibliography.
>
> The Editors of the volume are Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell 
> (University of York, UK: [log in to unmask]) and Paul Shackel (University of 
> Maryland US: [log in to unmask]). The volume has an advanced contract 
> from Routledge as part of their new Key Issues in Cultural Heritage series 
> (http://www.routledge.com/books/series/Key_Issues_in_Cultural_Heritage), 
> which is under the General Editorship of William Logan and Laurajane 
> Smith, and is publishing cutting edge and innovative work in heritage 
> studies.
>
> Abstracts of not more than 300 words should be sent for consideration, 
> together with a 50 word biography, by March 31st to: [log in to unmask] with 
> the view to producing first drafts of papers by the end of September 2009. 
> Note submissions will be subject to peer review.
>



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David A. Gadsby
Assistant Director
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland
1125 Woods Hall
College Park, MD  20742
301-405-0085